John Cusack Quotes
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
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The world is always in movement.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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...modern poetry is necessarily obscure; if the reader can’t get it, let him eat Browning...
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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
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My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
